So email from a particular email adress(a legit newspaper) keeps ending up in my spam folder. I tried Googling for a solution but they keep pointing to menu items and what not that I am not seeing on my phone(LG G3). How do I whitelist the email address?

I never tried that, but I thought that going in the spam folders, ticking some messages and marking them as 'not spam' would do what you describe. Doesn't that work ?

That simply moves the individual emails one at a time from the spam folder to the regular inbox. Each time a new email arrivew, it still gets sent to the spam folder.

If you can't find a way to do it on your smartphone, why don't you just use a PC to fix it through your browser? I'd expect it to be an email account issue, not mailing app on your phone, and therefore it should be possible.

If my suggestion is moronic, please kindly ignore it without calling me an idiot. :P

Edit: click if you use Gmail.

Gmail has a learning algorithm, like everything else Google does it is always learning about you and your habits.

You might get something out of it by showing Google mail that you actually read the mail every so often, and as Potzato said mark it as not being spam.

Use a PC and go to the Gmail website to make the changes. None of the Gmail apps that I am aware of allow you to whitelist. The official Gmail app doesn't even allow you to mark things as spam.

Adding an address to your contacts is supposed to help, but I've never noticed it doing so.

Gmail's learning just seems to handle mailing lists badly. At least it's putting those in the spam folder; I had to stop sending fail2ban reports from my Web server to my Gmail account when they started being blocked with nothing added to Gmail, just a rather useless error message sent back from their mail server and found in my logs.